Question: How do I fix my messed up timeline?

[Edli36883824kn7u]

 

I've just installed Adobe After Effects for future projects I want to work on and began practicing using it, I saw this tutorial on how to do an effect I liked and tried it out. 
While messing with the time settings I made my timeline look weird? It doesn't display seconds anymore, and I really don't know how to navigate this, any help on how to make my timeline display seconds instead of whatever this is? 

[Byron Cortez · Accepted solution]

At the bottom of the timeline you have a horizontal zoom slider, clearly you have everything on the right, slide it to the left so that it is not so wide and you will surely see the seconds.

[Edli36883824kn7u]

Ok, thank you! 😅

[Byron Cortez]

You're welcome!

[Byron Cortez]

Also, make sure your composition lasts a few seconds because otherwise you will still only see the f (frames) and not the s (seconds).

[Warren Heaton · Accepted solution]

It looks like your Time Ruler in the Timeline panel is zoomed all the way out for a Composition that has a short duration.

For example, a the Time Ruler in a Composition that is ten frames long (0:00:00:10) will look like this (similar to your screenshot):

And the Time Ruler in a Composition that is ten seconds long (0:00:10:00) will look like this:

Go to your Composition Settings (Composition > Composition Settings) and increase the duration of the Composition.

[Edli36883824kn7u]

Ahh I see, thank you for the help! :]